Eternally shifting sands of Obama's biography
It used to be a lot simpler. As E.C. Bentley deftly summarized it in 1905: "Geography is about maps But Biography is about chaps." But that was then, and now Biography is also about maps. For example, have you ever thought it would be way cooler to have been born in colonial Kenya? Whoa, that sounds like crazy Birther talk; don't go there! But Breitbart News did, and it turns out that the earliest recorded example of Birtherism is from the president's own literary agent, way back in 1991, in the official bio of her exciting new author: "Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." |
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Steyn on BooksThe Spirit of Geert Wilders
When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders' new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. SteynPostsDutch courage
Geert Wilders' new book, Marked For Death, is a terrific read in its own right, but it also comes with a foreword by Mark setting the scene for Mr Wilders' sobering account of Islam's war against him and the wider west. And, if you order it from the SteynOnline bookstore, Mark will be happy to sign it for you. Steyn on AmericaAmerica's Slow Suicide
Mark tells Charles Adler why he believes America is in the midst of a slow suicide. Steynamite in Toronto!Steynamite spared no sacred cows
(VIDEO) Michael Coren provides the highlights of what proved to be an unforgettable night at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre... |
Breaking! The House of Windsor is One of the Five Tribes
My weekend column mentions en passant Teepee Party candidate Elizabeth Warren's contributions to the cookbook Pow Wow Chow, a "compilation of recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families"... In the CornerLast Dance
Donna Summer, 9/11 victim? In the CornerThe Ministry of Casual Sex
Peter Kirsanow was doing Orwell/1984 allusions yesterday, so let me put in a pitch for Aldous Huxley and Brave New World. Opening today at Canada's taxpayer-funded Museum of Science and Technology is an exciting new interactive exhibition for high-schoolers that makes the perfect field trip... In the CornerMrs. Warren's Positionality
In the week that Newsweek hailed Obama as America's first Gay-for-Pay president, let us not forget another shatterer of the glass ceiling – Harvard Law's "first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren"... |
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